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Telecommunications in Canada : technology, industry, and government /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Babe, Robert E.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 1990.
Toronto ; Buffalo : [1990]
Subjects:
Telecommunication > Canada > History.
Canada.
Telecommunication > Canada > History
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Mythologies of Canadian telecommunications
  • Telecommunications today
  • Onset of electronic communication
  • Cartelization
  • The Telegraph coast-to-coast
  • Inception
  • Independent telephones
  • The Politics of government control
  • Western reaction
  • Local-exchange competition in Ontario and Quebec
  • Long-distance competition and reversed rate rebalancing
  • Natural monopoly : arguments and evidence
  • Unnatural monopoly : predatory pricing and the cost inquiry
  • Rate regulation
  • Juggling corporate forms
  • Broadcasting
  • Cable television
  • Communications satellites
  • Electronic publishing
  • Political economy
  • An Information revolution?